Monthly Archives: September 2015

First review of Of Sorrow and Such!

SorrowsandSuch_FINAL_hiresOver at Publishers Weekly, they call Of Sorrow and Such “enthralling, clever, and deliciously complex”. Huzzah!

The rest, she is here.

Horrorology Interviews: Michael Marshall Smith

Writing horror under the name of Michael Marshall Smith and thrillers as Michael Marshall, MMS has produced a slew of best sellers, including The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead. He’s won awards for co-writing and performing two series of BBC Radio 4’s cult show And Now, In Colour, is a five-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, and
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Over at Simon Bestwick’s Place …

Emer in the garden, Kathleen Jennings

Emer in the garden, Kathleen Jennings

… I talk about my current projects, the trauma I’ve inflicted on my sister, and a few other things.

Head to the Lowdown for the full story.

Ancient Myths, Modern Tales

bwfI must do a BWF rundown, but I am trying to catch the tails of the deadlines that got away from me last week! In lieu, here is Joelene Pynnonen’s summary of Ancient Myths, Modern Tales, the panel I moderated
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Horrorology Interviews: Stephen Jones

Photo copyright © Peter Coleborn. All rights reserved.

Photo copyright © Peter Coleborn. All rights reserved.

Today, we start a series of interviews with just about everyone involved in the new anthology Horrorology: The Lexicon of Fear, edited by Stephen Jones
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She Walks in Shadows – sample story

Amazing cover art by Sara Diesel

Amazing cover art by Sara Diesel

Over at Innsmouth Free Press, an excerpt of my story “Lavinia’s Wood” from She Walks in Shadows is appearing!

Go here!

Over at SF Signal …

Best-Horror-vol-7-final-cover1… a bunch of us talk about the inspiration behind our stories in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year Volume 7.

Click here to go down the rabbit hole!

Fairy Tale Friday – on Monday!

LightBecause of all the excitement of Brisbane Writers Festival I forgot to re-post this last week. But here it is now: my darling and very talented friend Angie Rega is running a series of Friday Fairy Tales. I’m honoured to
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New Project with Electric Dreamhouse Press

elecSo, Electric Dreamhouse is a new Cinema imprint coming in 2016 from PS Publishing, edited by the delightful Neil Snowdon. The imprint will be producing a series of connoisseurs’ guides to Cult and Genre Cinema.

It’s something new for me, to
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven

ybh7Last night, due to a mix-up with my postal address, I had to go over to Norman Park to the house I lived in for eight years before I moved in with the Tech Badger.

This was no hardship, because it
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